Second to none: rationale, timing, and clinical management of clozapine use in schizophrenia

M Qubad, RA Bittner - Therapeutic Advances in …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite its enduring relevance as the single most effective and important evidence-based
treatment for schizophrenia, underutilization of clozapine remains considerable. To a …

Anterior cingulate glutamate metabolites as a predictor of antipsychotic response in first episode psychosis: data from the STRATA collaboration

A Egerton, K Griffiths, C Casetta, B Deakin… - …, 2023 - nature.com
Elevated brain glutamate has been implicated in non-response to antipsychotic medication
in schizophrenia. Biomarkers that can accurately predict antipsychotic non-response from …

Genetic determinants associated with response to clozapine in schizophrenia: an umbrella review

MZ van Der Horst, G Papadimitriou… - Psychiatric Genetics, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Objective Clozapine response varies widely from person to person, which may be due to
inter-individual genetic variability. This umbrella review aims to summarize the current …

Non-prescribing of clozapine for outpatients with schizophrenia in real-world settings: The clinicians' perspectives

MI Jakobsen, SF Austin, OJ Storebø, J Nielsen… - Schizophrenia, 2023 - nature.com
Clozapine is the gold standard for treating treatment-resistant schizophrenia although
continuously underutilized. Previous surveys of clinicians have found that some of the most …

Predictors of successful anti-inflammatory drug trials in patients with schizophrenia: A meta-regression and critical commentary

A Chandra, BJ Miller, DR Goldsmith - Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 2023 - Elsevier
Given evidence pointing toward a role for immune dysregulation in the pathogenesis of
schizophrenia, anti-inflammatory agents are promising adjunctive treatments that have …

CLEAR–clozapine in early psychosis: study protocol for a multi-centre, randomised controlled trial of clozapine vs other antipsychotics for young people with treatment …

C Casetta, P Santosh, R Bayley, J Bisson, S Byford… - BMC psychiatry, 2024 - Springer
Background Clozapine is an antipsychotic drug with unique efficacy, and it is the only
recommended treatment for treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS: failure to respond to at …

Predictors of clozapine discontinuation at 2 years in treatment-resistant schizophrenia

B Iruretagoyena, CP Castañeda, C Mena, C Diaz… - Schizophrenia …, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction Little is known about predictors of clinical response to clozapine treatment in
treatment-resistant psychosis. Most published cohorts are small, providing inconsistent …

Using a statistical learning approach to identify sociodemographic and clinical predictors of response to clozapine

D Fonseca de Freitas, G Kadra-Scalzo… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: A proportion of people with treatment-resistant schizophrenia fail to show
improvement on clozapine treatment. Knowledge of the sociodemographic and clinical …

Dopamine supersensitivity psychosis and delay of clozapine treatment in patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia

Y Masumo, N Kanahara, M Kogure… - International Clinical …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Both the underutilization of clozapine and treatment resistance of patients to clozapine are
serious problems worldwide. Identifying clinical markers predicting response to clozapine …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical predictors of antipsychotic treatment resistance: development and internal validation of a prognostic prediction model by the STRATA-G consortium

SE Smart, D Agbedjro, AF Pardiñas, O Ajnakina… - Schizophrenia …, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction Our aim was to, firstly, identify characteristics at first-episode of psychosis that
are associated with later antipsychotic treatment resistance (TR) and, secondly, to develop a …